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15 March 2014

Issue 2960

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New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Earth

Formula 1 will spearhead greener cars for us all

Opinion
The therapy pill: Forget your phobia in fast forward

Health

The therapy pill: Forget your phobia in fast forward

Features
Eccentric Earths: Weird planets where life might lurk

Life

Eccentric Earths: Weird planets where life might lurk

Features
Evolution's traps: When our world leads animals astray

Earth

Evolution's traps: When our world leads animals astray

Features
Virtual clone: A guinea-pig twin will keep you healthy

Life

Virtual clone: A guinea-pig twin will keep you healthy

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Earth

Dare we hope for a global climate treaty next year?

The world is getting greener and the political appetite for change growing – and the UN's lead climate negotiator is infectiously optimistic

Opinion

Earth

US-Mexico deal shows how to make water peace, not war

Opinion

Earth

Formula 1 will spearhead greener cars for us all

Opinion

News

Spider monkey society is sexually segregated

Life

Spider monkey society is sexually segregated

No girls allowed Ew, boys! A species of spider monkey has been found to live in strictly sexually segregated societies, apparently because the males attack the females if they spend too much time together. They are the first non-human primate species known to systematically separate along gender lines. Geoffroy's spider monkeys, Ateles geoffroyi, live in …

News

Health

Monkeys expose narrow window for baby HIV 'cure'

News

Space

Earth raises a plasma shield to battle solar storms

News

Life

Did dark matter kill the dinosaurs? Maybe…

News

Earth

Massive stores of UK shale gas will tempt frackers

News

Health

Rugby players warned of long-term brain injury risks

News

Space

Most Mars meteorites may be from same giant crater

News

Earth

How much hotter is the planet going to get?

News

Earth

Four banned ozone depleters detected in the atmosphere

News

Earth

Bummer. Climate change will shrink gnarly Aussie waves

News

Life

First test to predict Alzheimer's years in advance

News

Life

A burst of orange light wakes up our 'circadian eye'

News

Space

Invisible Saturn-sized planet given away by comet army

News

Life

Zoologger: Female spider kills male to attract a mate

News

Technology

Malaysian plane sent out engine data before vanishing

News

Space

First twin astronauts take on space microbiome

News

Space

Australia hatches plan to zap space junk with lasers

News

Environment

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Huge water pulse to bring Colorado river back from dead

News

Health

Is OCD an addiction like drugs or gambling?

News

Space

Desktop quantum cloud to hunt elusive space-time waves

News

Technology

7 tricks to keep F1 cars fast and fuel-efficient

News

Technology

Robot elephant trunk learns motor skills like a baby

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Technology

Watch as the world's first 3D-printed house goes up

News

Life

Shrub is a smart gambler when tackling parasites

News

Life

The genes that mean you have a good ear for music

News

Health

Threatwatch: Chikungunya may explode with rainy season

News

Opinion

Clean energy or cheap energy? We can have both

Earth

Clean energy or cheap energy? We can have both

Rising energy bills don’t mean we should give up on cutting our carbon emissions. Quite the opposite

Opinion

Life

Why I gave away the fossils I spent 20 years finding

Opinion

Earth

We'll live to see a low-carbon world: UN climate chief

Opinion

Analysis

Facebook drones alone won't help the offline world

Technology

Facebook drones alone won't help the offline world

Big tech firms like Facebook and Google want to bring the internet to the poor world, but their high-flying access points can be only part of the solution

News

Aperture

Cute but deadly furball launches death attack

Life

Cute but deadly furball launches death attack

(Image: Jurgen Freund/naturepl.com) WITH their massive eyes, tarsiers are high on most people's cute list. But extreme cuteness comes at a price. The eyes are so big that each eyeball, at 16 millimetres in diameter, takes up the same volume as the entire brain . The skull is madly shaped to accommodate this arrangement, and …

Regulars

Features

The therapy pill: Forget your phobia in fast forward

Health

The therapy pill: Forget your phobia in fast forward

Is a pill to banish phobias too good to be true? (Image: Jun Ahn/Barcroft Media) Talking cures for phobias or addictions take ages to detrain your brain. What if a memory-boosting drug let you do it in a day? IT'S happening again. My heart starts pounding and my pulse races. I can feel my face …

Features

Life

Eccentric Earths: Weird planets where life might lurk

Features

Earth

Evolution's traps: When our world leads animals astray

Features

Life

Virtual clone: A guinea-pig twin will keep you healthy

Features

Culturelab

Wet revolution: Where's the world water manifesto?

Earth

Wet revolution: Where's the world water manifesto?

To survive water shortages, nations need to rethink their supplies (Image: Dylan Goldby at Welkinglight Photography/Getty) We need a fourth water revolution to cope with the world's shortages, says Fred Pearce : two new books reveal the problem but don't go far enough EVER wondered what reactivated sludge is? Or what links your local water …

CultureLab

Physics

No coincidence? Statistics and the outrageously unlikely

CultureLab

More

Lift off: How to launch your career after a postdoc

Lift off: How to launch your career after a postdoc

The Postdoc Survival Guide: Part 3

In a three-part series, New Scientist serves up all you need to know about bagging a postdoc, making the most of your experience, and successfully transitioning to the tenure track

Landing one of the few job openings on the faculty tenure track requires luck as well as scientific excellence, so ensure you have a realistic backup plan

Careers

Regulars

Feedback: Going down the tubes with CO<SUB>2</SUB>

Feedback: Going down the tubes with CO2

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Going down the tubes DELIGHTFUL nonsense – that was Henry Shipley's verdict on the conspiracy concept that orchestras tune the note A to 440 hertz because of a Nazi plot (18 January) . He observes that the subject could introduce …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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